Which movie is the scene from?
This is from the series The Good Place.
I don’t get it. Aren’t they pronounced mostly the same?
I’ll do my best here - “Aristotle” is pronounced “Air-ih-stot-ul” whereas Chipotle is more like “Chip-oat-lee”
Aristotle is only pronounced like that because Aristoteles was somehow too confusing for English speakers.
Now that you mention it… he’s indeed called Aristoteles in my language… never noticed the spelling difference in english!
Yup. The British did weird stuff to Roman names out of victorian reasons.
Hadrianus becomes Hadrian, because of anus. They then also shortened others like Pompeius becoming Pompey etc.
I know I’m furthering the immature narrative, butt:
lee
Um what?
They did say their best. Not that it’d be correct.
Chip-oht-lay
I’m struggling here because I don’t know what that word is. So I can’t work out what the ultimate pronunciation of female is either
Tamales are a type of food. (Pronounced like Tom-all-ays)
So the joke is making you read “females” (fee-males) like Fem-all-ays
Tah-MAH-lehs would be more accurate. ‘Females’, read as in Spanish, would be feh-MAH-lehs.
It’s easy, you read Spanish as if every vowel had that ‘h’. Vowels do not change their sound.
That’s a horrible explanation, right? Here. That’s how you always pronounce the vowels.
Reminds me of this poem: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chaos
I like my fe-mah-lays like I like my ta-mah-lays. Steaming hot and wrapped in corn husks!
Right?!? Guys?!?
You can just say Midwestern.
Midwestern.
Now what?
Now you wait for the corn of your dreams.
You’ve just been pronouncing females wrong this whole time and everybody was too embarrassed to correct you.
Fuh-MAH-lays, just like it looks.
Haha, silly hu-mans.
A better question: How many folks thought they misspelled the second “females”?
I am just the right amount of high for this one. I can coast on this tweet for a solid 20 minute think sesh.
I sometimes like to mispronounce stuff, that I know the proper pronunciation of, just for kicks and this is just ammo for my annoying habit.
You put the em-PHA-sis on the wrong syl-LAB-le
Or you butcher accents. Like jalapeno.
Norm?
I love me a good ch-asm
You just like causing cha-os.
And why aren’t Batman and Goodman pronounced the same.
I think it should be Bat-mun.
Because the words are from two different languages?
Racist
how do you figure
